Quotes About Perspective

There was a jail with a prisoner in it," he said, "who was surrounded by mountains of money. He kept counting the money and feeling so happy about his life, thinking that he was the richest man in the whole world. A man passing by saw him and said through the tiny window: "Why are you so happy? You are in prison? Do you know that?" The prisoner laughed: "No! No! It is not that I am inside the jail. It is that you are outside of the jail!

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Creo que no me estás escuchando;-parecería que tienes prisa. Cierto, sí, todos tenemos prisa de que el otro calle para poder hablar nosotros. Y cada uno de nosotros no oye sino sus propias palabras. ¿Qué importancia tienen las palabras? Sólo la acción se cuenta y cuenta -como siempre subrayabas.

After ~2 years with the iPhone and ~2 weeks with the iPad, it's actually the iPhone that seems like the weird size of the two...

Quando um mosquito se deixa apanhar numa teia, não pode querer mal à aranha.

Le poisson rouge ne peut ramener la complexité des océans à la quiétude de son bocal. (p.185)

Le livre n'est qu'un miroir. Il nous renvoie à ce que nous sommes. C'est pour cela qu'un livre est adoré par certains et vomi par d'autres. Chacun y trouve sa part de sensibilité, sa part d'humanité. Le livre fait partie du rêve et le rêve est le père de tous les espoirs.

But how can I accept blindness in order to be happy? How can a man turn his back on himself without coming face-to-face with his own negation? You can't water a flower with one hand and pluck it with the other. When you put a rose in a vase, you don't restore its charm; you denature it. You think you're beautifying your room, but in fact, all you're doing is disfiguring your garden.

La chance nous sourit tous les matins, le bonheur nous accueille tous les soirs, et on s'en rend pas compte. On s'y habitue et on pense que ce sera tous les jours ainsi. On fait pas gaffe à ce que l'on possède puis, hop ! D'un claquement de doigts, on s'aperçoit que l'on a tout faux. Parce qu'on croit avoir décroché la lune, on veut croquer le soleil aussi, et c'est là que l'on se crame les ailes

Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away from the misery even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream...

No, Arabs are not lazy, but we take the time to live life to the full; it is something Europeans don't understand. To them, time is money. To us, time has no price.

I'll never understand why the survivors of a tragedy feel compelled to make people believe they're more to be pitied than the ones who didn't make it.

qui reve trop oublie de vivre" dieu n'habite pas la havane. p 9

qui rêve trop oublie de vivre" p:9

je cherche toujours le bon côté des choses car elles en forcément un.je vois le verre à moitié plein,une forme de sourire par-dessus la grimace,et la colère comme un enthousiasme dénaturé" P: 9

And remember this: There's nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

Cuando dos intelectuales argelinos se entienden entre sí… —… siempre es en detrimento de un tercero —remata Sido cerrando la puerta al salir.

ViaÅ£a este un tren care nu se opreÅŸte în nicio gar?. Fie îl lu?m din mers, fie îl privim trecând de pe peron, ÅŸi nu e tragedie mai mare decât o gar? fantom?.

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you are who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If on the other hand, I am who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I am not who I am and you're not who you are....

the Irish priests sometimes considered their French-Canadian counterparts primitives.)

Unquestionably it would have been Mary Magdalene who did the dishes at the Last Supper. Concluded Marguerite Yourcenar.